Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 7, 1917, Page 8

es ee ee PRT TIES - THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE Salesroom Govern Leasing Indian Lands A recent Washington dispatch says that the Secretary of the Interior has Gongress. to, Clark and govern the leasing of lands formerly|then took the m under consideration regulations 235-37 N. Center | residing in the central part of the If the competitive bidding plan ord Situation in Casper 150 Contracted less 96 Delivered Leaves 54 to Deliver less 19 orders on file 35 Ford Cars for sale during the next 3 months Place your order today if possible Earl C. Boyle Authorized Agent |State, conducted prospecting on the should be adopted by the department, ‘Jands in question and endeavored to ‘Wyoming citizens and smal] operators secure a lease for operating them practically would be debarred from It was de-,obtaining leases, as they are not against of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of|the big capitalists, who, under the the Interior that leases could not be! bidding plan, would secure the cream | granted until authorized by an Act of\and bulk of the leases. € and ing senators and representative are a Representative Mondell; unit in protesting against the bidding atter up and secured ,system, and Senator Clark, before he pro- from the Indian office. jeaee | 1, however, by the commissioner financially able to compete Senators Warren i 1 in the Wi iv. ya-| legislation authorizing the department retired from the Senate, a eric ch a z i a bee ee to lease the lands for oil and gas. This tested against its adoption. ton and, Supposed to contain valuable | )_oislation is embodied in the Act of | deposits of oil. A very strong effort is being made by the big oil oper- ators to have these leases granted by! competitive bidding. Senators Warren end Kendrick and Representative Mondell of Wyoming and Senator Myers of Montana, who is chairman of the Public Lands Com-, mittee, nd Senator Ashhurt of Ari- zona, che an of the Indian Affairs -. curing an Indian lease on 126 acres Committee, have _ prote: against and wishes of the people of Wyoming Ljoini the Hall Midwes the competitive bidding plan, believe are entitled to and should receive 3JOIMNE | Oe that if it is adopted it will shut out careful consideration, especially Me REE - local and small operators from ob- the legislation providing for le considered a very on taining leases and will place them in the Jands was initiated by Wy tand, located ir the hands of big operator citizens. A lar number of apr nd a¢ hs 1 cants residing in W ‘ 1 Oil ( 's | 1 € fels 1 e ‘ ago numvoer of W P AE ETI LETTE TNE The Bell Wyoming leasi The Wyoming Senators and Repre- CENTER OIL COMPANY TO senta sented to the department that as these lands are located in the State of Wyo! ative in Congress have repre-) Alfred Steele of the Oil Company The Bell-Wyoming Oil Company is CASPER, WYOMING . Wyoming Corporation, with a apital stock of two hundred thousand dollars, divided into two hundred thousand shares of the par value of one dollar each. The Company owns royalty rights in the southeast quarter and the It is expected that the secretary of August 21, 1916, and it is under this’ jnterior will announce the regulations Act that the department is now for- ynder which the leases will be granted mulating regulations to govern the jn the near future. DRILL IN PILOT FIELD Center Oil ing the people of that State Cy spent several days in Riverton are more interested in them than the last week, where he succeeded in se- public generall, and that the views northwest quarter of Section 22, Township 35, in Range 77, in what is known as the Coal Creek Oil Field. Section 22 is in the center of the anticline and interests identified with the Merritt-Humphries organiza- tion hold the lease to the land owned by the Bell-Wyoming Company. fhe expected royalty earnings will be twelve and one-half per cent of the gross production. The Company will have no operating expense and no salaries to pay, for the reason that its land must be developed, and is being developed by the Merritt-Humphries interests. At the present time the developmnt of the field has approximately reached the point where the deepest well is down about two thousand feet, that well being about a quarter of a mile from the Bell-Wyoming Company’s land, which should bring it close to the Shannon Sand, which is expected to be productive. The information that we have is that four Standard rigs are in operation in the immediate vicinity of the Company’s land, and that twelve rigs are erected and nearly ready for operation in different parts of the field. We conceive that the points which recommend this company’s stock are as follows: FIRST: The Company does not have the burden of selling a vast amount of stock for the purpose of raising funds to develop its land. SECOND: The land must be developed and 1s being developed by a strong and successful group of oil operators. THIRD: The Company does not have the burden of producing and selling the oil and does not have one dollar of operating or overhead expense of any kind. FOURTH: The earnings of the company will accrue from royalties arned without expense to the company, which makes the gross earnings ailable for dividend purposes. We offer 3500 shares at twenty-five cents per share, all sales sub- ject to refusal at that price if orders exceed 3500 shares; we have avail- able a block of 52,000 shares ,quotations variable as the developments in the field and our land progresses. e Dutton, Staley & Co. Suite 7 Smith Building. 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